Target.



No. 805,361. PATENTED NOV.-2l, 1905.

A. L. HOGKBTT. TARGET.

APPLICATION IILED MAR.24, 1904.

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Hill! I 1 M Afforney No. 805,361. PATENTED NOV. 21, 1905.

' A. L. HOGKETT.

TARGET.

APPLICATION FILED MAR, 1904.

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TARGET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 21, 1905.

Application filed March 24, 1904. Serial No. 199,725.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AARON L. HocKETT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Targets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for indicating the accuracy of shots by crediting bullseyes and portions thereof. This is one of the objects of the invention, and another is to provide a simple device which can be used in the household without endangering lives or property.

Another object is to provide a device which is accurate in its announcements and will automatically indicate the result of a series of shots.

While, as has already been stated, the invention is particularly adapted as a parlor or household device, it can be used in other places, such as shooting-galleries and the like.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a front elevation of the preferred form of the invention. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same. Fig. 8 is a side elevation. Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view. Fig. 5 is a detail horizontal sectional view on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 6 is a detail view of the pawl.

The same reference characters designate the same parts throughout the several figures above described.

1 is used to indicate a face-plate, which consists of a circular head-piece or dial 2, a neck 3, and a body 4, the latter having a preferably central opening 5 through it. The dial 2 is provided on its outer face with a circular scale 6, marked in any way desired, but shown in this case as running from 1 to 100. Oo operating with the scale is a rotary pointer 7, mounted on an arbor or shaft 8 and moving over the scale. The rear portion of the arbor is journaled in a bracket 9, secured to the rear side of the plate, and mounted on said rear portion is a ratchet-wheel 10, having a peripherial series of teeth 11.

A rock-shaft 12 is mounted on the rear side of the plate 1 at the juncture of the head and neck or at any convenient point. One end of the shaft is provided with an arm 13, to which is pivoted the lower end of a pawl 14, the upper end operating upon the teeth of the ratchetwheel and having a notch 15 at said end, forming prongs 16, that lie on opposite sides of the wheel. Suspended from the end of the shaft opposite the arm 13 is a rearwardly-swinging pendulum-stem 17, the lower end of which carries an enlarged platen or projectile-engaged device 18, that covers the opening 5 and swings rearward ly from the same. This platen or device is surrounded and operates in a sleeve 19, having a slotted upper part to receive the stem 17, the sleeve being concentric t0 and surrounding the opening 5. Another and larger sleeve '20 is formed upon the exposed face of the body portion 4: of the faceplate and is also preferably arranged concentric to the opening 5. Within the sleeve or annulus 20 and on the body portion at of the face-plate is a plate 20, designed to receive the impact of such bullets as do not pass through the opening 5.

In use the target is set up in a convenient place, the opening 5 forming the bulls-eye. A bullet or projectile, as A, properly'shot will pass through the opening and strike the platen, causing the pendulum to swing rearwardly, the shaft 12 to rock, the pawl 14 to be elevated, and the wheel 10 turned a certain distance, preferably ten points, if the shot is a fair one that does not strike the edges of the opening. This movement is limited by a fric tion-spring 21, bearing against the pointer at its place of attachment to the arbor 8. If part of the bullet strikes the edge, as indicated at B, a certain percentage of its momentum will be lost, and the pendulum not being swung as far thereby the pointer will not travel its full limit. After the projectile has spent its force the pendulum will return to its original position, as will also the other elements, except the pointer and parts attached thereto. The target is then in readiness for another shot, which, if successful, will advance the pointer.

All spattering of the lead is prevented by the safety-rings 19 and 20, so that the device is practicable for use in a parlor or household. At the same time it may be used in other places, and while but one has been shown it will be apparent that it can be duplicated for shooting-galleries and the like, and it may, furthermore, be well to state at this point that the invention is not limited to the exact parts or arrangement of parts shown, but that the same may be modified and changed considerably without departing from the invention.

Having now described the invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a target, the combination of a plate bearing a scale, a movable device having a platen designed to receive the impact of a projectile, a pointer movable with respect to the scale, and a step-by-step driving connection intermediate the movable device and the pointer for moving the latter on each movement of the former.

2. In a target, the combination of a plate having an opening and bearing a scale, a pointer movable step by step with respect to the scale, a ratchet fixed with respect to and movable step by step with the pointer, a pawl arranged, when moved in one direction, to engage and move the ratchet, and, when moved in the opposite direction, to leave the ratchet at rest, a movable device arranged opposite the opening in the plate so as to be moved by the impact of a projectile, and means intermediate' the pawl and the movable device, for moving the former by the latter.

3. In a target, the combination of a plate having an opening and bearing a circular scale, a rotary pointer, a ratchet-wheel fixed to the pointer, a pawl arranged, when moved in one direction, to engage and turn the ratchet wheel, and, when moved in the opposite direction, to ride over the ratchet-wheel, and a movable device connected with the pawl and arranged opposite the opening in the plate so as to be moved by the impact of a projectile.

4. In a target, the combination of a plate bearing a circular scale, a rotary pointer, a ratchet-wheel connected with the pointer, a rock-shaft journaled on the plate, a pawl connected to the rock-shaft and cooperating with the ratchet-wheel, and a pendulum connected to the shaft and having a projectile-engaged platen.

5. In a target, the combination of a plate having an opening 5 and bearing a circular scale, a sleeve or annulus 19 surrounding said 4 opening and having a notch, a rotary pointer,

a ratchet-wheel connected with the pointer, a rock-shaft journaled on the plate, a pawl connected to the rock-shaft and cooperating with the ratchet-wheel, and a pendulum connected to the shaft and having a projectile-operated platen disposed in the sleeve or annulus 19.

6. In a target; a plate bearing a scale and having an opening 5, and sleeves 20 and 19 dis posed at its front and back, respectively, and 5 surrounding the opening 5, a pointer movable with respect to the scale, a projectile-operated, movable platen arranged in the sleeve 19, and a permanent connection between the platen and the pointer for moving the latter step by step by the former.

7. In a target, the combination with a faceplate having an opening through it, of a dial having a scale on the exposed face of the plate,

a rotary pointer over the dial, a ratchet-wheel connected with the pointer and arranged in rear of the face-plate,'a rock-shaft journaled in rear of the plate, a pawl connected to the rock-shaft and cooperating with the ratchetwheel, and a pendulum suspended from the 5 shaft and having a projectile-engaged platen covering the opening in the plate.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of. two witnesses.

AARON L. HOOKETT.

itnesses:

H. S. MARsroN, D. M. CARMIOHAEL. 

